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World Cup & Soccer News | May 21, 2010
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Maradona runs over cameraman, berates him, then announces World Cup roster
By Jeffery Marcus
May 21, 2010
Buenos Aires, AR — Diego Maradona arrived at Argentina Football Association headquarters on Thursday.
Do bizarre situations find Diego Maradona, or does the Argentina coach engineer them because he is worried he might fall out of the soccer headlines? (Unlikely, I know.)
Just before announcing his final roster for the World Cup, Maradona ran over a cameraman outside the Argentine Football Association headquarters and then vulgarly chastised him for deliberately putting his leg underneath the wheel of Maradona’s moving car.
“How can you put your leg there where it can get run over, man?” Maradona yelled out the window of his blue Mini Cooper. He then went inside the AFA headquarters and announced his World Cup team.
Goalkeepers: Sergio Romero (AZ Alkmaar/NED), Mariano Andujar (Catania/ITA), Diego Pozo (Colon)
Defenders: Nicolas Otamendi (Velez Sarsfield), Martin Demichelis (Bayern Munich/GER), Walter Samuel (Inter Milan/ITA), Gabriel Heinze (Marseille/FRA), Nicolas Burdisso (AS Roma/ITA), Clemente Rodriguez (Estudiantes), Ariel Garce (Colon)
Midfielders: Jonas Gutierrez (Newcastle/ENG), Maximiliano Rodriguez (Liverpool/ENG), Javier Mascherano (Liverpool/ENG), Juan Sebastian Veron (Estudiantes), Angel Di Maria (Benfica/POR), Javier Pastore (Palermo/ITA), Mario Bolatti (Fiorentina/ITA)
Forwards: Lionel Messi (Barcelona/ESP), Gonzalo Higuain (Real Madrid/ESP), Martin Palermo (Boca Juniors), Sergio Aguero (Atletico Madrid/ESP), Diego Milito (Inter Milan/ITA), Carlos Tevez (Manchester City/ENG)
Argentina plays Canada at the River Plate stadium on Monday, Argentina’s last warm-up for the tournament. Maradona and his team plan to fly to their World Cup base in Pretoria on May 28. They face Nigeria, South Korea and Greece in Group B.
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